Re: [Marketing] Interesting news

2007-09-04 Thread Lars Noodén
Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: ... Andy Updegrove is predicting failure for OOXML in its rushed quest to be yet another ISO standard for office documents. http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=2007090315253367 I can see several advantages here regardless of the outcome.

Re: [Marketing] Indonesia Choose To Abstain

2007-09-04 Thread Charles-H. Schulz
Hello Willy, thank you for the information. We're still having some trouble collating all the results worldwide, but whatever the outcome might be, it's going to be razor thin... Best, Charles. Willy Sudiarto Raharjo a écrit : Indonesia has voted to abstain for the OOXML decision. This is

[Marketing] Promo. text.

2007-09-04 Thread John Wilcox
Hi I used to belong to the Community but my membership lapsed for various reasons. However I would like to contribute a slogan that could fit in with a graphic and it is as follows Ready to fly when you apply -OOo This may or may not strike a cord with some people, but it just an idea that

[Marketing] Info new release 2.3

2007-09-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi *, Since OOo 2.3 is expected next week, it is time to prepare the news about new features. Technical = = = = = With help from some people at the Netherlands-mailinglist, I've prepared info for the wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/New_Features_2.3#Full_list (We made the

Re: [Marketing] Interesting news-update

2007-09-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
And, an update: http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/ Updegrove is now writing, quote Last night, I projected that the OOXML vote in ISO/IEC JTC1 would fail. I now have confirmation from someone who has seen the official results that indeed the vote has failed. By way of

Re: [Marketing] Info new release 2.3

2007-09-04 Thread sophie
Hi Cor, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi *, Since OOo 2.3 is expected next week, it is time to prepare the news about new features. I answered you this morning on the release list, but strangely when I hit the reply button on some lists, this is my OOo alias adress that is selected and of course get

Re: [Marketing] Info new release 2.3

2007-09-04 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Sophie, sophie wrote: Since OOo 2.3 is expected next week, it is time to prepare the news about new features. I answered you this morning on the release list, but strangely when I hit the reply button on some lists, this is my OOo alias adress that is selected and of course get moderated.

Re: [Marketing] Upcoming marketing campaign: Targets and design

2007-09-04 Thread Ian Lynch
On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 23:37 -0400, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Florian has suggested some specific targets. Let's narrow it even further. My preference is education Just a bit of a tangent but might be of interest. Here is a message I got from a head of IT in a school this morning. I will be

Re: [Marketing] Info new release 2.3

2007-09-04 Thread John McCreesh
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 14:43 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: [snip] Well, that looks rather 'not so nice', IMHO. But since I'm not yet Wiki-adict (that is about what's needed to be able to work with it, IMO :-) ) *I'll be happy to receive advice from others*. I prettified your tables with a bit of

Re: [Marketing] Upcoming marketing campaign: Targets and design

2007-09-04 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Hi On 2007-09-04, at 12:25 , Ian Lynch wrote: big snip If you want a resource for teaching about open standards I have produced a Moodle course at http://theingots.org/moodle/mod/resource/view.php?inpopup=trueid=30 Cool; I'll check it out. My interest in education centres on post-